Software Quality Engineer Intern Jobs in California

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe's all about. We give everyone - from emerging artists to global brands - everything they need to build and deliver outstanding digital experiences.

Our team is developing a new-generation, AI-first web application in an emerging field. This is a new product we are building from scratch, and quality engineering is a core founding-team focus.

We seek a Senior Software Quality Engineer eager to establish standards for a modern web product. If you enjoy creating fast, reliable test systems for innovative web experiences and thrive on the uncertainty involved with workflows guided by AI, we'd love to connect.

• Own the end-to-end quality strategy for a new AI-first web application, spanning the prompt and agent layer, the in-browser experience, and the generated output.
• Compose, build, and maintain modern web test automation (Playwright / Cypress, TypeScript/JavaScript) and the underlying infrastructure that keeps it fast, deterministic, and developer-friendly.
• Stand up evaluation harnesses for automated workflows: golden prompt suites, regression baselines, model/version comparisons, hallucination and safety checks, and human-in-the-loop review pipelines.
• Ensure comprehensive quality for a real-time web product - performance, resilience, accessibility (WCAG), and cross-browser/cross-device coverage.
• Embed quality into CI/CD: build release gates that catch real regressions, reduce flake, and turn production telemetry into pre-submit signal.
• Work closely with engineering, product, and design to build testability into the process early. Guide engineers on test strategy, automation patterns, and adopting a shift-left outlook.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in customer -facing software quality / SDET positions
• Automation experience with modern web frameworks (Playwright, Cypress, or similar) and strong coding skills in TypeScript/JavaScript; comfort with Python is a plus.
• Experience designing test strategy for AI / ML / LLM-powered features -prompt regression, evaluation datasets, model drift, timely-injection and safety testing, or equivalent.
• Strong fundamentals in API testing, performance and load testing, and observability tooling (Datadog, Splunk, Sentry, OpenTelemetry, or similar).
• Excellent collaboration and communication; able to influence engineers and PMs early in the build cycle.
• Embrace generative and AI-assisted development workflows, and be eager to learn and adapt as the tooling continues to evolve.
• Thrive in a fast-paced, agile, founding-team environment with real ambiguity.
• Prior experience with creative tools, design-to-code, browser-based graphics (Canvas/WebGL), or real-time collaboration stacks.

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